Pieces of Britney

Britney Spears: pop icon. Pandora Sykes pieces together what we know about her story, and what it tells us about sex, entertainment, and how we treat women in the public eye. In this eight-part series for BBC Radio 4, Pandora traces Britney's incredible life: from her hardscrabble childhood in rural Louisiana, to her coronation as the inaugural pop princess of the internet, navigating an insatiable celebrity gossip complex; through to a young mother on trial by the paparazzi. Britney is a pop culture phenomenon. Pandora looks behind that mask - and beyond Britney herself - to explore how Britney became the most Googled person in the world, for almost seven years, and what it says, both then and now, about the entertainment industry, politics, sex and how we see women in the public eye. Britney's public struggles saw her placed in a conservatorship, in which she lost the right to control her finances and day to day life. Thirteen years later, and she is in court, pleading for this controversial legal arrangement to end. We will look at how Britney has been transformed from girl-next-door teen sensation to a mute symbol of a supposedly rotten system. Pieces of Britney mixes documentary, archive and interviews to tell Britney's remarkable story. It also features drama, written by playwright Katie Hims, to bring Britney and her extraordinary world to life. Pieces of Britney is a sympathetic portrayal of Britney, during a time of cultural reappraisal about how we treat women - famous, or otherwise. These are some of the stories that have been told about her - but The Narrative is hers to finish. Presenter: Pandora Sykes Dramatist: Katie Hims Sound: Peter Ringrose Producers: Anne Isger & Sasha Yevtushenko A BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4
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- 9 Episodes
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Well researched but please no acting
02/07/2021
Love Pandora Sykes and her style of presenting and was really looking forward to this podcast. I enjoyed the majority of it, and it is clearly well researched, but I probably could have done without the ‘drama’ and acted out bits. I don’t think it adds anything especially if it has been embellished, and found myself fast forwarding through. Otherwise, a great deep dive into Britney’s traumatic story
Loved it
08/08/2021
Love Pandora’s sympathetic and kind presentation of Britney’s situation. It’s very well researched and the 00’s song choices are 10/10!
Whether you’ve joined the #freebritney move or not this podcast is a MUST listen
22/07/2021
Pandora Sykes narrates Britney’s story with conviction and passion! The most informative podcast I’ve listened to on the free Britney movement, I enjoyed everything from the intro song, the play wright, the interviews with journalists, lawyers, psychologists, veterans of the music industry the series provides archival footage which provides a telescope in to the chaotic world of Ms. Britney Spears her some times high but mostly lows in her rapid journey of becoming the worlds most successful pop-star. This podcast fortuitously uses Spears experiences over the past 20 years as an example of the consistent mistreatment of woman regardless of fame in the 21st century. #freebritney
NOT ACCURATE
14/07/2021
I was fortunate enough to work on two Britney Spears music videos while I lived in Los Angeles in the mid-nineties. Whoever you cast to play her is those dreadful dramatisations was so wrong. She was such a dedicated, hard-working and loving person. You portray her as a bimbo, something she definitely is NOT.
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- CreatorBBC Radio 4
- Years Active2K
- Episodes9
- RatingExplicit
- Copyright© (C) BBC 2021
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